LA/OC Exhibition | California Biennial 2025 🎨

OCMA is currently hosting the California Biennial and Light Atlas—and I highly, highly recommend visiting! ✨ ✨ 2025 California Biennial: Desperate, Scared, But Social • This year’s California Biennial (held since 1984) focuses on youth and coming of age, exploring themes like adolescent/young adult anxiety, longing, and social relationships. It delves into the complex landscapes of growth, identity, community, and socialization. • Curated collaboratively by OCMA’s curatorial team and the Orange County Young Curators—marking the first time OCMA has invited teenagers to co-curate the exhibition. • The title is inspired by the 1990s OC underground girl band Emily’s Sassy Lime’s debut album. The exhibition brings together 12 artists/collectives, spanning painting, video, installation, performance, and archives (you can even listen to vinyl records on-site!). • One particularly fascinating section is a special "historical chapter" featuring early painting collections from Gardena High School—a public high school in suburban Los Angeles. Since 1919, each graduating class has fundraised to purchase a work by a California artist for the school. Over a century, this has created an accidental "student-era art museum" with hundreds of early 20th-century California Impressionist works. 💡 After viewing the entire exhibition, you can really feel OCMA’s evolution and elevation. I personally love how it connects/supports the community while fostering intergenerational collaboration. The works reflect California’s spirit across different eras, and the curation, perspective, and final presentation are all brilliantly executed. Have you visited yet? What’s your favorite piece or exhibition theme this year? Share your thoughts below! 👇🎨 📍Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) #OC #LifestyleLA #LAExhibitions #ExhibitionHighlights #ArtEverywhere #ArtBaselMoments #ArtExhibitions #LosAngeles #GalleryHopping #CaliforniaBiennial #OCMA #ContemporaryArt #YouthArt #CommunityArt #CaliforniaArtScene #ArtAndIdentity